Summary information

Study title

Costa Rican Peasants, 1972-1973

Creator

Seligson, M. A., University of Arizona, Department of Political Science

Study number / PID

1486 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1486-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

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To measure several social-psychological, behavioural, and socio-economic attributes of smallholders and landless labourers in Costa Rica. The survey focused on those peasants engaged in agrarian capitalist production and hence avoided interviews with peasants whose primary means of production was subsistence farming.
Main Topics:

Variables
The questionnaire establishes very carefully the precise nature of the relationship the respondent has to the land he works. It has several questions on political participation, trust in government, anomie, modernity, and attitudes towards unionization. The questionnaire also includes a section on paired-comparison preferences for peasant social status types.

Political behaviour and attitudes

AGEAGRARIAN STRUCTUREAGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVESAGRICULTURAL EXTENSIONAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTURAL WORKERSAGRICULTURAL WORKERS ASSOCIATIONSAIR TRANSPORTAIRPORTSALCOHOLIC DRINKSALCOHOLISMATTITUDES

Data collection period

01/12/1972 - 01/04/1973

Country

Costa Rica

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Groups

Subnational

Farmers

Universe

Costa Rican peasants working in the major agrarian capitalist industries (coffee, bananas, sugar) living both on and off the Meseta Central

Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1981

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

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Seligson, M. (1980) Peasants of Costa Rica and the development of agrarian capitalism: University of Wesconsin Press.
Seligson, M. (1980) 'A problem-solving approach to measuring political efficacy', Social Science Quarterly
Seligson, M. and Berk-Seligson, S. (1978) 'Language and political behaviour:: a methodology for utilizing the linguistic component of socioeconomic status', American Journal of Political Science
Seligson, M. (1980) 'Trust, efficacy and modes of political participation:: a study of Costa Rican peasants', British Journal of Political Science
Seligson, M. and Booth, J. (1978) Political participation in Latin America, New York: London: Holmes & amp.
Seligson, M. (1979) 'Public policies in conflict: : land reform and family planning in Costa Rica', Comparative Politics
Seligson, M. and Salzar, J. (1979) 'Political and interpersonal trust among peasants:: a reevaluation', Rural Sociology
Seligson, M. (1979) 'The impact of agrarian reform: a study of Costa Ric', Journal of Developing Areas
Seligson, M. and Berk-Seligson, S. (1979) 'Peasants as activists: : a reevaluation of political participation in the countryside', Comparative Political Studies
Seligson, M. (1977) 'Prestige among peasants: a multidimensional analysis of preference data', American Journal of Sociology
Seligson, M. and Berk-Seligson, S. (1978) 'The phonological correlates of social stratification in the Spanish of Costa Rica', Lingua